In the nation’s most impoverished large city, San Antonio leaders have long known that federal spending cuts would eventually rock their community’s world, potentially leaving cash-strapped local governments scrambling to pick up the bill.

Now a federal government shutdown aimed at forcing tough conversations on such cuts — like whether to continue health care subsidies that expire at the end of the year — is bringing that fiscal cliff closer to reality.

As of Wednesday, when the government shut down at 12:01 a.m., the full impact of the Trump Administration’s planned cuts to social safety-net type programs like Medicaid and food stamps still have yet to be felt.

Congress hasn’t been able to pass a spending bill since the new administration took office, and stopgap spending measures h

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